Quotes About God

the more we see of God's glory in his works the more we shall desire to see.

When God pardons sin he quite abolishes it, casts it behind his back.

The workman made it, therefore it is not God. To represent an infinite Spirit by an image, and the great Creator by the image of a creature, is the greatest affront we can put upon God and the greatest cheat we can put upon ourselves. As

God will always have a church on earth; but he never said it should be infallible, or perfectly pure from corruption on this side heaven.

Note, Those who go about to mock God do but deceive themselves. Hypocrisy in religion is the greatest folly as well as wickedness, since the God we have to do with can easily see through all our disguises, and will certainly deal with us hereafter, not according to our professions, but our practices.

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?

Skill in secular employments is God's gift, and comes from above, Jam. 1:17.

Children should be directed and encouraged to ask their parents questions concerning the things of God, a practice which would be perhaps of all others the most profitable way of catechising;

Bendito sea Dios por ese libro que nos muestra nuestro remedio, al igual que este abre nuestra herida. Señor, ¡abre nuestros ojos y miraremos las maravillas de tu ley y de tu evangelio! (Sal. 119:18).

Our faith, our conversion, and our eternal salvation, are not of works, lest any man should boast. These things are not brought to pass by any thing done by us, therefore all boasting is shut out. All is the free gift of God, and the effect of being quickened by his power. It was his purpose, to which he prepared us, by blessing us with the knowledge of his will, and his Holy Spirit producing such a change in us, that we should glorify God by our good conversation, and perseverance in holiness.

Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed or loved, feared or served, delighted in or depended on, more than God, that (whatever it is) we do in effect make a god of.

so bad a thing is it to invade God's property, and so cautious should we be to abstain from all appearances of this evil.

God's servants must think nothing below them but sin.

The best use we can make of our worldly wealth is to honour God with it in works of piety and charity.

Holy love to God is the fire by which all our offerings must be made; else they are not of a sweet savour to God.

In all our dealings with God, free grace anticipates us with the blessings of goodness, and all our comfort is owing, not to our knowing God, but rather to our being known of him

We must first see the righteousness of God condemning, and then the righteousness of God justifying will appear worthy of all acceptation.

No delights can be agreeable nor satisfying to a soul but those that God himself has provided and appointed for it; no true paradise, but of God's planting. The light of our own fires, and the sparks of our own kindling, will soon leave us in the dark

Acceptance with God is the great thing we should desire and aim at in all our religious services, particularly in the Lord's supper, which is our eating of the sin-offering.

God is the first and best, and therefore must have the first and best.

What God's ministers say to us is then likely to do us good when the glory of God shines in with it upon our souls.

Those that multiply gods multiply griefs to themselves; for, whoever thinks one God too little, will find two too many, and yet hundreds not enough.

The children of disobedience are such as choose to disobey God, and to serve the devil;

Y esto podemos decir sin temor a equivocarnos: que aquel por quien Dios hizo los mundos, no solo el gran mundo, sino el pequeño mundo del hombre, formó el cuerpo humano al principio según el modelo que diseñó para sí mismo en la plenitud del tiempo.